Yearly Archives: 2026

Prompted, Not Proven – Part 1: Most “AI for Finance” Content Has Never Met a Real Client

If you spend any time on LinkedIn, Instagram, or YouTube, you’ve probably seen it: every AI tip, trick, and hack you’re supposedly missing out on. But how much of it has ever been used with a real client?

29 Predictions: How AI Will — And Won’t — Change Everything I Said It Would

If you’ve been following this series from the beginning, you may be wondering how it came to be. I originally wrote more than 18 pages of predictions about a month before we began publishing them. That means some of what I wrote is now nearly a quarter of a year old.

29 Predictions: How AI Will Reshape the Finance Skills that Actually Matter

So much of the chatter right now is about AI changing what analysts do. But as I mentioned in a previous series of The Statement, I actually believe AI is going to eliminate a significant portion of what analysts are hired for in the first place.

Your Variance Report Is Wasting Time It Doesn’t Have To

Picture this: a 28-year-old Controller is spending his Friday evening rewriting a paragraph about a $12,000 unfavorable office supplies variance. At a $16 million publishing company. And he’s on his fourth draft.

29 Predictions: How AI Will Eliminate the Finance Roles You Know Today ​

So much of the chatter right now is about AI changing what analysts do. But as I mentioned in a previous series of The Statement, I actually believe AI is going to eliminate a significant portion of what analysts are hired for in the first place.

29 Predictions: How AI Will Cement Microsoft’s Dominance and Threaten FP&A Platforms

There is a widespread belief in this space that AI is going to kill Excel. I want to be direct: I think that’s wrong. ​ I get prodded on this regularly on LinkedIn, where salespeople who work at software companies tell me that Excel can’t scale.

29 Predictions: How AI Will Collapse the Online Finance Education Market

This issue shifts to the market that many finance professionals have turned to instead: online courses, training platforms, and self-paced learning. The outlook here is not much better. In some ways it’s more precarious. I hope my rationale explains why I take the position that I am.

29 Predictions: How AI Will Split Higher Education Into Winners and Losers

Some of the “college is dying” conversation dramatically overstates what’s actually happening. Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Kellogg, Wharton and their peers are not disappearing. Not anytime soon.

29 Predictions: How AI May Make the Four-Year Finance Degree a Harder Sell

I teach data analytics at the graduate level and I genuinely love that work. So before I go further, let me be clear: I am not anti-college. I am anti-autopilot. And the autopilot assumption — that a four-year degree is the default next step for almost every young person…

29 Predictions: How AI Will Devalue the Finance Credentials You Worked So Hard to Earn

In recent editions of The Statement newsletter, I’ve shared how I believe the structure of management consulting, public accounting, and investment banking firms is about to change dramatically. Most notably, it’s going to upend the status quo of billable hours (shifting instead to value-based billing).